Estimates of the Direct and Indirect Effects of Red Imported Fire Ants on Biological Control in Field Crops

By M. Eubanks. 2001

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. W. E. Snyder
2. R. Denno
3. D. Finke
4. David Crowder
5. Claudio Gratton
6. C. Straub
7. I. Kaplan
8. M. Eubanks

In Genetics

1. W. E. Snyder
2. I. Kaplan
3. D. Finke
4. R. Denno
5. J. Bronstein
6. J. Ness
7. M. Eubanks
8. C. Straub

In Insect Science

1. R. Denno
2. S. Naranjo
3. W. E. Snyder
4. D. Finke
5. Peter C. Ellsworth
6. Claudio Gratton
7. M. Eubanks
8. I. Kaplan

Citations in the corpus

• Are the conservation of natural enemy biodiversity and biological control compatible goals (2008, background): “, 1993, 2004a; Rosenheim, 2001; Snyder and Ives, 2001; Snyder and Wise, 2001; Finke and Denno, 2002, 2004; Prasad and Snyder, 2004). Finke and Denno (2005) explicitly investigated the impact of intraguild predators on the relationship between increasing predator diversity and the strength of herbivo”
• APHIDS ALTER THE COMMUNITY‐WIDE IMPACT OF FIRE ANTS (2005, background): “We manipulated fire ant abundances in several crops and recorded relatively weak effects of fire ants on arthropods in soybean and collards, but a comparatively strong impact of fire ants in cotton (Eubanks 2001, Eubanks et al. 2002, Harvey and Eubanks 2004; M. Eubanks, unpublished data).”
• Interactions between a hunting spider and a web‐builder: consequences of intraguild predation and cannibalism for prey suppression (2004, background): “Similarly, there are many cases of strong interactions between insect predators that are also attributable to asymmetries in body size, aggression, or defence (Rosenheim et al., 1993; Lucas et al., 1998; Eubanks, 2001 ).”
• Conservation of natural enemies in cotton: role of insect growth regulators in management of Bemisia tabaci (2004, background): “Reductions in one of the most abundant prey in the system also may have increased opportunities for intraguild predation (Eubanks, 2001; Rosenheim et al., 1993) among predator species, further contributing to reductions in densities of some predators.”
• The little things that run the world revisited: a review of ant-mediated ecosystem services and disservices (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (2012, background): “Invasive ants can be beneficial to growers because they do prey on agricultural herbivore pests, and also are negatively associated with other natural enemies of those pests (EUBANKS 2001).”
• The Effects of Invasive Ants on Prospective Ant Mutualists (2004, background): “…(L. humile: Bartlett 1961; P. megacephala: Cudjoe et al. 1993; Reimer et al. 1993; Gonzalez-Hernandez et al. 1999; S. invicta: Vinson and Scarborough 1989; Tedders et al. 1990; Dutcher et al. 1999, Eubanks 2001; Michaud and Browning 1999; Kaplan and Eubanks 2002; but see Clarke and DeBarr 1996).”
• Eating their way to the top? Mechanisms underlying the success of invasive insect generalist predators (2010, background): “For example, Eubanks (2001) investigated the effects of the invasive red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, on pests and beneficial species in cotton and soybean fields in Texas.”
• Intraguild Predation of Beneficial Arthropods by Red Imported Fire Ants in Cotton (2002, background): “We hypothesize that the negative correlation between Þre ant and spider abundance observed in the Þeld arises from Þre antsÕ dramatically suppressing the density of shared prey in cotton and, as a result, spiders emigrating from areas of high Þre ant densities (Eubanks 2001).”
• Habitat manipulation of the apple orchard floor to increase ground-dwelling predators and predation of Cydia pomonella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) (2004, background): “Researchers have also suggested that ants hold the potential to disrupt biological control through predator interference (Eubanks, 2001; Rosenheim et al., 1995).”
• Economic costs of invasive alien ants worldwide (2021, background): “Agricultural impacts of invasive ants could mainly be attributed to the mutualistic relationship of ants with sap-sucking insects, such as aphids and mealybugs, which directly damage the plants and spread plant diseases (Eubanks 2001).”
• Disruption of Cotton Aphid (Homoptera: Aphididae)—Natural Enemy Dynamics by Red Imported Fire Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (2002, background): “Fire ants may provide beneÞcial control of pest species (NegmandHensley 1969,Morrill 1977, Sterling 1978, Eubanks 2001,Vogt et al. 2001).”
• Composition, abundance and pest control potential of spider communities in agroecosystems: a comparison of European and US studies (2003, background): “Spider abundance on cotton in Alabama was negatively correlated with abundance ofSolenopsis invicta (Eubanks, 2001).”